Type-distributing apparatus.



No. 791.558. v PATENTED JUNE 6, 1905.

' L. K. J HNSON; A. A. LOW. I

TYPE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.26.1904.

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llHlHlllll No. 791,558. PATENTED JUNE 6, 1905.

I L. K. JOHNSON & A. A. Low.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATIOH FILED MAR.28,1904.

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' UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS K. JOHNSON, OF NEW YORK, AND ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF HORSESHOE, NEW YORK. ASSIGNORS TO ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 791,558, dated June 6, 1905,

Application filed March 28, 1904:. Serial No. 200,223. I i

To (LZZ/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LoUIs KOSSUTH JOHNSON, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and

ABBoT AUGUSTUS Low, residing at Horse-' with the complicated and expensive mechanism heretofore employed, to distribute the types automatically into such type-containing-channels, and to substitute a duplex typereceiving case into which the types may be dropped byhand and by which they will be introduced into their respective channels for future use in the setter-case.

The invention consists in the combination, arrangement, and construction of parts hereinafter described and claimed specifically.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved type-dis- -tributer case, the middle portion thereof being broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical section upon plane of line 2 2, Pi 1. 1

Our case consists of a Iilurality of banks or rows of type-receivers R R and connections arranged one above the other, those above in the rear of those below, two such banks being shown in the accompanying drawings by way of illustration. Connected with each receiving-hopper 1' is a type-conduit 1", by which the types are deposited in the mouth of a receiving-channel O, supported upon shelves S of the case. These channels 0 extend backward from the lower ends of the type-conduits r, so that the front of the case is eft free and unobstructed.

a a represent automatic means for transferring the type from the lower ends of the conduits 7' into the type-containing channels 0. This may be accomplished by the use of wiper-cams, as shown, or by any of the other expedients well known in the art. tomatic forwarding devices are covered with a front guard G to preventv accidental contact therewith.

Any desired or convenient number of rows or banks of receivers and connections may thus be combined in a single case, as may be found most expedient in meeting the s ecial requirements of use and of spaceavai able. The types may be as quickly and conveniently dropped from the fingers of the distributer into the receiving-hopper r as into the old fashioned compositors compartment-case and will descend through the conduits r on their broad or flat sides, owing to the presence of convergent side walls of each receiver, which insure the turning of types The audropped on edge, as heretofore described by us in our concurrent application, Serial No. 197,215, filed March 9, 1904.

'In combination with this form of distributer-case we'use a series of pi-channels P, arranged above the upper band of receivers, into which the types to be distributed may be introduced by any convenient method and from which they can be conveniently removed by the fingers of the distributer. These channels P P are arranged in a vertical position, or substantially so, the types in the ower part of each channel being forwarded automatically into position for removal by hand as fast as the preceding types are so removed. This may be accomplished by the self-acting type-forwarding mechanism here- 'tofore patented to us, type-forwarding blades being used to detach and present a suitable number of types simultaneously for convenient removal by hand. I

What We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. In a type-case for hand distribution, the combination of a plurality of rows or banks of type-receivers and conduits arranged one above the other, those above in the rear of those below, a series of type-containing channels for each bank extending backward underneath the same, means for automatically transferring the types from the said conduits to the said containing-channels, and a series of pi-channels arranged above the upper row of receivers for the purpose set forth.

2. In a type-case for hand distribution, the combination of a plurality of rows or banks of type-receivers and conduits arranged one above the other, those above in the rear of those below, a series of type-containing channels for each bank extending backward underneath the same, means for automatically transferring the types from the said conduits to the said containin -channels, and a series of substantially vertical type-channels arranged above the upper bank of receivers, and means for forwarding the types in the lower part thereof automatically for removal by hand, substantially as set forth.

LOUIS K. JOHNSON. ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW.

Witnesses D. W. GARDNER, GEO. WM. MIATT. 

